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Portrait of Jens Rennstam. Photo.

Jens Rennstam

Senior lecturer, Director of third cycle studies, Department of Business Administration

Portrait of Jens Rennstam. Photo.

Show and tell

Author

  • Jens Rennstam

Editor

  • Olof Hallonsten
  • Anna Jonsson
  • Jens Rennstam
  • Nadja Sörgärde

Summary, in English

“Show, don’t tell” is common advice for writers of fiction. This advice is meant to encourage authors to illustrate rather than to directly state information about environments and feelings. For instance, instead of writing “she was angry,” they would write “she left the room with steady steps and slammed the door behind her,” which illustrates anger.

When supervising students, I use this advice and the analogy to fiction writing, albeit in an altered version: “show and tell.”

Department/s

  • Department of Business Administration
  • Organizational Studies

Publishing year

2024

Language

English

Pages

63-68

Publication/Series

Metaphors we supervise by

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Studentlitteratur AB

Topic

  • Information Studies

Keywords

  • method
  • analysis
  • qualitative method
  • writing

Status

Published

Project

  • Metaphors we supervise by

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9789144184197